Chrome only: Sometimes you've got more than one item to copy and paste, and sometimes you need to re-copy that thing you copied a few minutes ago. That's what Google's Web Clipboard is for, available now as a free Chrome extension.

We've previously seen how Google's web-based clipboard works in its early Google Docs appearance, and here it works the same: highlight text (regular or HTML) on a page, hit the button, and it's copied to Google's servers. Head over to a new tab, whether now or in a future Chrome session, and that text is ready for pasting whenever. The clips last for 30 days after you've last accessed them.

The downsides? The extension is a mite bit buggy at this early stage. Google Docs doesn't see the same stuff you've copied from Chrome, even though they're in the same bin. There's no right-click functionality to speed up copy and pasting, and pasting seemingly works only when you head to a different tab from the spot where you copied. At its base level, though, it is a free repository of things you need to have handy.

The Google Operating System blog, and many of its readers, seem to feel the semi-shuttered Google Notebook service was a better implementation of universal copy-paste. Do you agree?